Leaving Ooma for a simpler "number parking" service

[Lavarock]

Or, you could load the Voip.Ms softphone or Zoiper app on your cellphone. Then you can make or receive calls that way without a PC.

I have also used a similar service called CallCentric with has what I feel are less services but check out their rates too.

[Nole]

@Lavarock

Understand that if you receive a call and forward it to your cellphone that is a double hop, so perhaps 2 cents a minute. Decades ago phone company rounded up to the nearest minute so a 1 minute 1 second call was billed at 2 minutes. Voip.Ms bills in 6 second increments, so if you are only on for 30 seconds it would be 1/2 cent.

Interesting! Can you choose to reject certain calls (e.g. spam & phishing) so you won’t be charged for it?

[Lavarock]

Yes. You can use the caller ID to do that type of thing.

It is free to create an account and you can explore all sorts of the options. The only drawback the you get used to, is that you define things from the end back to the beginning. For example, you create a voicemail box before you can forward calls to it.

CallerID Filtering: If you only want to stop specific unwanted or spam numbers from ringing through to your forwarding destination while keeping normal calls active, go to DID Numbers > CallerID Filtering to block or redirect individual numbers.

CallerID Number: Enter the country code followed by the area code, and use the _ (underscore) wildcard for the remaining digits.

• Example for North America (Country Code 1): To block area code 555, enter 1555_______ (the number 1, the 3-digit area code, and exactly 7 underscores for the remaining phone digits).

Or perhaps you want to only pass phone numbers that are in your area code.